While listening to recommended streaming playlists as I write, as a writer often does, I found myself no longer writing and only listening when the song “Lovefingers” by Silver Apples came into my ...

In the 1990s, amid the acoustic guitar revolution, grunge, rap music, and many other styles, there was a sound that rose to prominence and stuck around perhaps longer than anyone could have imagined.

When crafting instrumental music, artists have to convey personality and a point of view without falling back on vocals — or, more to the point, expressions of human emotion. The best, like the ...